I am a developing artist working on improving my abilities to create beautiful digital landscape compositions. Without the help and suggestions of the many fellow artists in this community, it would be a long time before I reach the next level.
BIO
I am a retired procurement professional who has long had an interest in photography and painting; and, lately in computers and photorealistic natural landscapes. I hope to become more proficient and perfect my abilities to produce acceptable work. My experience in art started at a very early age when I would spend many hours sketching and painting. I had instruction at The Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois. I did some freelance work for Flying Models, Model Airplane News and Top Flite Models creating plans and illustrative construction sequences for magazines and kit models. I had spent more than 20 years designing, building and flying radio controlled model airplanes...a very rewarding hobby for me. During the 1970s, I spent 11 years in the hobby of "bonsai"; the Japanese art of miniature trees. In my first 7 tree entry in a contest, all 7 trees were awarded ribbons in various categories. Japanese landscaping became a passion for me where I completed a 3 year project creating a Japanese landscape around my home in Oak Forest, Illinois. I also did this work for several other people in our community. In 1987 I moved to Phoenix, Arizona where I currently make my home. The love of the American southwest and all its beauty is where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. Now that we have computers, digital cameras; and, Terragen; I'll have enough to do for a long, long time.
Comments (30)
armoric56
very realistic landscape!well done
Brian S.
Really nice render. Are those clouds rendered? They look fantastic!
JPSoft
I like very much the soft vegetation in the foreground. Vraiment une belle scène paisible ...
choronr
@Brian S.; yes, these are rendered clouds.
Alex_NIKO
Nice composition and very good fluffy clouds - I like it!
artgum
Wow- fantastic realism Bob! The ground cover and vegetation are perfect. I want to go horseback riding here.
Maori
Your work is tremendous Bob, whether you practice or not :-). Beautiful work, my dear friend!!!
Danny_G
Amazing Terragen work. Very inspiring
classyladytwo
Well it certainly is beautiful practing my friend, fabulous creation
bebert
beautiful clouds and terrain , but... (i think... the vegetation is too hight and distorts the effect of depth of vision )? great work .
neo_primal
good one
Juliette.Gribnau
beautiful and very realistic
carlx
Excellent and well composed scenery!!! Love the lighting and atmo!!!
qrud
excellent work.
prutzworks
cool clouds
Coppens
Marvelous effort! Great clouds!
Petra-S
super images!
Savage_dragon
Wish I could practice like this. What an improvement. I like these clouds more, too. The veg is killer. Super 'practicing', Bob! ")
choronr
@ Savage_dragon: Thanks for visiting and your kind comments. Yep, one keeps trying to attain that ultimate scene which is elusive. We'll just keep n trying - don't know if we'll ever get there.
ppetersen
Now this one reminds me of an old Richard Widmark movie I watched on Saturday. Can't remember the name of it, but it was the 'old' west and this is so evocative of that same setting. Excellent work Bob... love the grasses which give the feel of 'almost' summer.
Markal
Nice one Bob...but you know I like contrast...sometimes I go too far but I do think a bit more contrast could help this look even more photo-realistic.
BenBischop
Amazing Practice Work....!!!!
2121
great work
Gunglejim
Awesome practice piece Bob!!! Nice looking vegetation and those clouds are wonderful. Very realistic.
Lissy
Wonderful summer feeling between the flowers, nice tree! The rendered clouds are super! I wish I could do that with Tg2 ... Your Tg2 is getting better and better ;)
sossy
wonderful summer impression! love the beautiful and fantastic colored flowers you composed into the terrain! ;o)
crag_dolomite
realism achieved
fractalinda
So beautiful, Bob. I love the bit of color contrast- just the right amount with those sweet wild flowers. Realistic and painterly-looking at once. So excellent!
abreojos
Looking good Bob...Hope you are feeling better.
pclavett
Lovely composition ! Would it have been possible to make the grass thicker or is there a limitation to the density ? Still excellent work my friend !